hi there everyone! i would like to share an article that I read on few days back on thestaronline. enjoy the article. by the way, hope all of you like the so called ANTI-TRUANCY ROBOT.hehe

Published: Friday August 14, 2009 MYT 1:38:00 PM

Crime prevention clubs in school to curb truancy crime

KUALA LUMPUR: The Government has set up over 6,000 Crime Prevention Clubs, increased the number of Police Cadet Corp in schools and set up district level Anti Truancy Teams to curb truancy and student involvement in crime.

Deputy Prime Minister and Education Ministers Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin said that efforts could only be successful if parents joined in by taking interest in where their children were at all times and what they were doing.

Education on the effects of truancy and criminal activities on childrens’ future was the best way to stop their involvement in unwanted activities.

URL : http://thestar.com.my/news/story.aspfile=/2009/8/14/nation/20090814134045&sec=nation#

Posted by Eliza Maria Benjamine

prevention measures

hey there..now we are moving up to the next topic which is "prevention measures for truancy".
there are many ways to overcome the truancy problem among students if all the parties work hand in hand.parents or guardians involvements play an important role to overcome the truancy problems among students. Parents must improve the environment of their house so that their children wont get stressed out and start involving themselve in immoral activities such as truancy. parents must show a good example and be a role model for their children. parents also must always keep an eye on their children;s daily activities and always make sure that their children's are doing well in school. There are many cases that children start involving in negative activities because their parents like to push them in studies or anything in their life. therfore, parents must always try to advise their children in a nice way instead of scolding or pushing them all the time.moreover, parents should not let their children take time off school for minor ailments because it might become their habits in future if they are keep on taking off whenever they want.

School must expose their students about importance of good attendance and punctuality
taking an interest in their education ask about school work and encourage them to get involved in school activities.besides that, school must have an good counselling centre where they are encouraged to discuss any problems they may have at school and if necessary inform their teacher or headteacher about anything serious.
as we all know that there are students who skip schools because they afraid of being bully by his or her seniors in school. so that, school authority must take an action towards those who bully these students. however for those serious problems of truancy, school authority must handle them by carrying out hard punishment or may be they can ask for police's help.
http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/Parents/Schoolslearninganddevelopment/YourChildsWelfareAtSchool/DG_4016117
http://www.schoolengagement.org/TruancypreventionRegistry/Admin/Resources/Resources/TruancyFactSheet.pdf

Good evening. I must say that Zainab had a lot to say in her post on ways of preventing truancy. Thank you my friend for the post. I would like to share on some measures that can be taken to prevent this social problem, which I found from a website. This post is mainly on the responsibilities of parents.

1. Parents should educate their children about the importance of education. This means parents should teach their children to make school a priority. Therefore, students must not miss school to help with the family business or to attend vacations that fall during the school days. Allowing students to miss school for reasons other than illness or family emergencies sends the message that school is not important.
2. Parents should mug up (study) with their children, that is to work with their child on subjects with which he or she struggles in. This is because certain student skips school to avoid facing embarrassment in the classroom when their academic performance is poor.
3. Parents are ought to explore alternative schools in their district. This is in case of social problem in the current school their child is in. Parents should be aware that other truant students can negatively influence their child and they might need to switch schools for severe problems. Parents are adviced to talk to the school counselor about this possibility.
4. Parents should request the school to notify them when their child is absent. The school must notify parents whether the absence is excused or unexcused to ensure the child is not forging his or her own excuses.

These are the few things that I have summarize from a website. I hope all of you find this post interesting and easy to be carried out. Thank you.

URL : http://www.ehow.com/how_2086207_prevent-truancy.html#

posted by, Eliza Maria Benjamine

hi friends,I'm back ......thanks for the post friends, i just read those post....

In the post that Eliza's post about the article its clearly shows that truant students is consuming to alcoholic drinks. students who are truant not only consume to alcoholic but they also take drugs and smoke. this habits are totally injuries to their health. furthermore truancy effects alot on the student because students who are truant keen to involve in gangsterism, vandalism and shoplifting. this kind of activities will spoil their future life. moreover truancy not only effects the students itself but it also effects people around them. when students play truant teachers take action to solve their students problem. this act will slow down the class teaching time and also will effect other student studies. other than that truancy also effect our community where when students play truant they might involved in gangsterism that will make people around them feel unsafe and frustrated with their behaviour.so its clearly shows that truancy makes every one's life unsafe especially the truant students life....so that's all for now catch you all soon....

posted by: kokila

Good evening to all of you out there. I would like to share a news article on TRUANCY. It is mainly about truancy among young individuals which is primary school pupils. I personally find this article quite disturbing, knowing what our younger brothers and sisters are doing behind our backs. i hope you find this article interesting.

Thursday October 1, 2009
Truancy a problem among pupils
By MAZWIN NIK ANIS

PUTRAJAYA: Truancy tops the list of disciplinary problems among primary school students followed by rude behaviour and the consumption of alcoholic drinks.
The Education Ministry is looking at ways to tackle these problems as the number of errant students have increased.
“Some primary school pupils in Sabah and Sarawak have been found drinking tuak and other locally-made alcoholic drinks and this must be checked immediately,” Deputy Educa-tion Minister Datuk Dr Wee Ka Siong told reporters yesterday.
According to the ministry’s records, 0.79% of the primary school pupils were involved in disciplinary problems between January and June this year, compared with 0.78% during the same period last year.
Although the increase was “almost negligible,” it needed to be checked as it involved young individuals who “already know how to skip school, be rude to their teachers and peers and drink alcohol.”
“We believe the pupils are influenced by television programmes or movies. That is where they learn foul language and violent acts,” he said.
Apart from truancy, students were also found to have committed lewd acts and some were even involved in criminal activities such as fighting and causing hurt and injuries to others.
Dr Wee said there were plans to appoint senior discipline teachers and to reduce the student-counsellor ratio to 1:300 from the current 1:500 so that the counsellors would not be over burdened.

posted by Eliza Maria Benjamine

Hi fellow members and followers. Hope all of you enjoyed the holiday. Well..I surely did! In my humble opinion, students who play truant are risking their chances of having a bright future. These individuals are clearly mentally immature to be involved in such social problem and having their future destroyed in a snap. How can they not imagine their own future by being involved in of the popular social problem? It is just sad to think that they would not be able to achieve a higher level of education. Truancy among students also affects the schools. An increasing rate of truancy cases will ruin the reputation of schools involved. This will then lead to parents not having faith or shall I say confident on a school. Parents would not want to send their children to a school which has a high rate of social problems. Besides that, truancy will certainly affect an entire class. Teachers tend to slow down and pay more attention on truants. This is so that students who plays truant can catch up with the syllabus. Other than that, the teacher might have to repeat the syllabus over again and this will disturb the other students who had already done that particular syllabus. Worse come to worst, the teacher might have to spare more of their time by carrying out extra classes.

posted by Eliza Maria Benjamine